On 2010-10-21, at 7:38 PM, "Ron Piggott" <ron.pigg...@actsministries.org> wrote:

> I am still struggling with this query still although I have made great 
> progress.  The following query (below) executes successfully.
> 
> Right now the query returns no rows.  I believe this is because there isn't 
> automatically a record in the following three tables.
> `ministry_profiles_activity`
> `ministry_profile_categories`
> `ministry_profiles_listing_details`
> 
> The bare minimum for a listing is only a record in he table 
> `ministry_profiles`
> 
> Is there a way to modify this query to accommodate only a record in the table 
>  `ministry_profiles`
> 
> Ron?
> 
> SELECT `ministry_profiles`.`reference`, `ministry_profiles`.`organization` 
> FROM
> (
> (
> ( `ministry_profiles` INNER JOIN `ministry_profiles_listing_details` ON 
> `ministry_profiles`.`reference` = 
> `ministry_profiles_listing_details`.`ministry_profile_reference` )
> INNER JOIN `ministry_profiles_activity` ON `ministry_profiles`.`reference` = 
> `ministry_profiles_activity`.`ministry_profiles_reference` )
> INNER JOIN `ministry_profile_categories` ON `ministry_profiles`.`reference` = 
> `ministry_profile_categories`.`ministry_profiles_reference` )
> INNER JOIN `ministry_categories` ON 
> `ministry_profile_categories`.`ministry_categories_reference` = 
> `ministry_categories`.`reference`
> WHERE
> MATCH( `ministry_profiles`.`organization`, 
> `ministry_profiles`.`address_line_1`, `ministry_profiles`.`address_line_2`, 
> `ministry_profiles`.`city`, `ministry_profiles`.`province_state`, 
> `ministry_profiles`.`postal_zip_code`, `ministry_profiles`.`country`, 
> `ministry_profiles`.`telephone`, `ministry_profiles`.`toll_free`, 
> `ministry_profiles`.`fax`, `ministry_profiles`.`email`, 
> `ministry_profiles`.`website` )
> AGAINST
> ('$search') 

Ron,

Try using a left outer join from the table that has records. The inner join 
won't return any rows if one record in one table is null. A left outer join 
will take all records from the left (first) table regardless of data being null 
in the other rows.

Does that make sense?

Bastien
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